A suggestion for a new thread for this iso/branch was made so here is one. Feel free to play with it and report any problems, especially if they are not present in the original Slacko 5.7 (most can probably be patched in woof-CE or the adrv as needed)

Changes added in the adrv (optional file):

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- Firefox 17esr replaced with Firefox 28 (palemoon and slimjet-14.0.16 can also be used if you want a bit more)
- Added a suspend button on desktop for laptops
- Re-added Ctrl-Alt-Backspace functionality to xorg.conf
- Added some missing mini-icons
- Added a working sfsconvert with the mksquashfs3 files
- Set gnome-mplayer as the default music player (pMusic can still be used if desired)
- Made "skip scanning extracted files for missing dependencies (faster)" the default in ppm

The default OpenSSL in slackware 14.0 is 1.0.1 but there is some information about 1.0.2 here (thanks belham2)

The kernel has been updated from 3.4 to 3.18 (nopae) as it's still being maintained well by Greg on http://www.kernel.org

I use this as my main OS for everything, my laptop is from 2005 and still works great.

WARNING! bash as used in this distro is vunerable to She11$hock.
slackware has 4.1.17 (look for slackware13.37 version) in security advisories -->2017

Thanks for that info 8Geee. I used the flags mentioned by mavrothal here to compile a 14.0 version of 4.1.17, as the Slackware versions had these differences and SFR's link seems dead now. Might add it to the adrv/iso later if I encounter no issues with it.

Installed the r5822 (25 jan 2018) build to an 8 GB Lexar flash drive formatted ext3. Installed belham2's PET to update openssl to 1.0.2l, and replaced e3 with my own custom build. After an evening of kicking the tires, no problems to report.

So, this pup like other new pups(?) has this intermediate step of making a USB Flash in fat32, then configure the system, then save with shutdown/restart and install again to another USB drive (partition/formatting any way you like). Copy the 3fs and done. Pupmode is 13.

Two USB's needed instead of one. But it works,

In Related News: got this on USB 768Mb ext3. Tossed adrive and put FF27 in root. Tossed unwanted vid-drivers. Gdmap reporting 460Mb with all the shares/servers. It should stay under 500Mb once I put in personal files and run the browser on-line.

Besides my getting used to this new way of doing things its really is nice to see the kernel upgraded to a supported version. At least Meltdown/Spectre is being fixed enroute. Thats not happening in 3.4.x.

These older FF browsers are quite snappy once they start-up. I tried ice-cat31.8 and it was as slow as FF45.9esr (read: molasses).

I would recommend this as the successor to Slacko5.7 original. Folks with an Atom CPU can still use the EONS version, those with anything else should be pointed here.

The only suggestion I have at this point is to have Foomatic xqx and zjs installed directly to Puppy (not in z or a drive). This will help with newer HP Laser Printers (usually under US$100 for base models w/wifi).

Regards
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